A new episode of the Math/Maths Podcast has been released. A conversation about mathematics between the UK and USA from Pulse-Project.org. This week Samuel and Peter spoke about: Advent at Plus and Numberphile; Math Shows Penguins Only Care About Themselves; What Willy Loman Could Learn From the Birds and Bees; Mathematical Counseling for All Who…
Radii of polyhedra
(At last month’s big MathsJam conference, we asked a few people who gave particularly interesting talks if they’d like to write something for the site. A surprising number said yes. First to arrive in the submissions pile was this piece by Tom Button.) The formula for the surface area of a sphere, $A=4\pi r^{2}$, is…
Watch Tim Harford recording a new radio show about economics for the BBC
Come and see me record a brand new radio show about economics! dlvr.it/2YZlv6 — Tim Harford (@TimHarford) November 29, 2012 Fans of Tim Harford and his work on BBC Radio 4’s More or Less will be excited to learn he’s doing a new radio show about economics. In this post on his blog, he explains…
Newcastle MathsJam November 2012 Recap
I’ve written up my souvenirs of this month’s Newcastle MathsJam over on my mathem-o-blog.
STYN by Sam van Doorn
STYN by Sam van Doorn. Parabolae galore! via Colossal
Recreational Maths Seminar this Sunday at 7pm GMT
There was no Recreational Maths Seminar last Sunday because I had a confluence of work, family stuff and overknackeredness from MathsJam the week before. The coming weekend should be considerably less busy, so let’s have our second seminar this Sunday, the second of December, at 7pm GMT. That’s 2pm EST (New York), 11am PST(California) and 6am EDT (Eastern Australia, on…
GCHQ recruits maths, physics and computing experts to analyse social networks
The Guardian is reporting that the Government Communications Headquarters (GCHQ) is to trawl social networks for intelligence. The Cheltenham-based organisation is recruiting maths, physics and computing experts to devise groundbreaking algorithms that will automatically extract information from huge volumes of speech, text and image content gathered “across the full range of modern communications media”. Read…